DON'T FEED STRANGERS CATS!!!!

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My cat has a sensitive stomach - someone has been feeding him and making him Ill. He's always an indoor/ outdoor cat he has PLENTY of food at home . I can't put a collar on him as he loses/ someone takes them off. Grrr

I agree, strangers shouldn't eat cats.

Putting it in your local Facebook group might help?

You have my sympathy someone did the same to one of my cats, made him terribly poorly for days. I don't let him out as much now.

Genius 😂

If you want to regulate what he eats keep him at home. Don’t inflict him on strangers then expect them to respond as you want them to.

I only feed cats to my friends

Yanbu

People feed my super friendly very cute & cuddly young cat. I've got photo evidence of them putting fucking cows milk in a saucer and giving it to her. Cue a nasty mess in the litter tray and a sad kitty.

Only feed cats to people you know well

If you want to regulate what he eats keep him at home. Don’t inflict him on strangers then expect them to respond as you want them to.

how is she supposed to do this? Most cats go outdoors. They can jump out of a tiny high window or dart through an open door.

Op is not bloody "inflicting" a cat on people choosing to entice in a pet that doesn't belong to them with food.

Inflict him on strangers??? 😂😂

Why should I make him unhappy and force him to stay in? Are you insane - don't you realise the onus is on actual people not to feed unknown cats???

The cat from down the street bullies my semi feral outdoor cats and steals their food. It also loses it’s collar fairly often squeezing though our gate.

If by a massive coincidence it’s your cat, I’m not always free to stand over my cats bowls while they eat and scare the uninvited guest off

agree - also don't take them in and say they are yours - my lovely boy has been home once since May - looking very well and not hungry - yes he doesn't have a collar but he is chipped so just check

What if it isn't left out for cats but they eat it anyway.

It might be food left for the wild fox or other animals at times when they can't find food.

You win

I don't live on a street. I suppose there is a TINY chance that may be true. However my DD told me she once saw a stranger feeding him something from their hand

Sometimes it is not that easy. My aunt has two cats and has a cat flap but also likes to keep her kitchen window as her kitchen can get stuffy. She often finds her neighbours cats eating out of her cats bowls.

This.

If you want to monitor what a pet eats, then you need to monitor where they are really. It isn't for other people to worry about.

In summer I had my kitchen windows open and someone's cat came through and had knocked my dd's milk bottle over and was lapping it up. I wouldn't intentionally feed anyone else's cat, I wouldn't know where to start!

Cat owners can't have it both ways up. If you can't stop your cats shitting in other speople's gardens, you can't stop other people feeding your cats.

You either own the cat or you don't.

I come here for the comedy gold.

My car's uses MY garden as a toilet actually.

And yes! Although I can't stop him from 'pinching' other animals food, I CAN expect actual humans not to feed him.

( grins at the puns on my post title)

Our very far neighbours cat will do anything to be in our house!! Jump on cars to mount roofs and get in windows, run between our legs as we enter the house after driving and parking up (getting kicked in the process half the time because he comes from no where!), run in the cat flap super close behind our cats before it shuts etc. He is a nightmare! He's also incredibly hard to get out of the house, so we end up going outside and putting dreamies down - otherwise he hides and runs and we can't get him out. He's very clever, if we shake the pouch but don't pour any he doesn't come out 😂

They're not making puns. They're pointing out the importance of punctuation in radically changing the meaning of a sentence.

Bloody hell. Excuse me - I didn't realise there were grammar police on here😂😂

Is this more or less annoying than people taking photos of perfectly healthy and well kept cats and posting them to FB asking “is this cat lost? I saw it on the street so just asking”?